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good morning Boer to welcome back we
hope for BOS toos may this news man the
summer post PES bring we should he good
news
from and good news from around the world
great to be back together again for
amuna our amuna series is generously
sponsored by Dr zavi and B Morgan in
memory of RAB Dr Brian galet in memory
of Bella's mother Dr Ellen shanzer very
grateful to the Morgans for their
continued
generosity we are deeply deeply
appreciative we are going to begin
learning something new together now uh
in a moment I'll give you the background
of what we're learning but first first I
don't have any new emails to share
because it's been Yan apparently when
people are making y if they don't have
time to send me emails a little bit a
little what can I tell you but I'm sure
by next week please God we'll have a
flurry of new hash moments from over PES
all thek of people who didn't kill each
other or members of their family and
they survived and they had a beautiful Y
and they didn't encounter but I want to
share with you a moment of CLA the
Jewish people moment which sadly and
maybe borderline tragically I think was
a little bit lost on all of us in a way
which is really very very sad There are
two enormous hash events that happened I
mean every single day to the Jewish
people to CLA we wait for we long for we
desperately Daven for more we want the
return of the hostages and the end of
this war and campuses and streets to be
safe for Jews everywhere there is so
much to Davin for lest your daving dry
out and you feel uninspired Hashem is
sure to send us every day new images and
new things that should Inspire and
motivate our davening but the sense of H
gratitude of boundless gratitude to the
Miracles of Hashem the Providence is not
only for us when we're driving around
and the perfect parking spot opened up
Providence is not only for us that the
selfclean oven worked in time to for p
the Providence for us is not that please
God this shabas the will turn out
perfect and just right it's not those
are not the only little micro moments of
Providence there are some macro moments
some enormous moments some moments that
are CL moments so we spoke about the the
miracle of Iran launching over 300
missiles that Israel drones and missles
and knocking all of them out of the sky
the likelihood and the probability
explained by physicists is no less than
if somebody shot a gun and someone else
standing nearby shot the bullet that
they had shot out of the air someone
shot a gun and a bullet was traveling
and someone else took their gun aimed
and shot the bullet out of the air you'd
say that's impossible that's miraculous
while knocking all those missiles out of
the sky was no less miraculous and sadly
we moved on so quickly instead of
pausing commemorating singing Hal
instituting a new holiday something to
say we've lived through a miracle a
miracle no less significant the Sixth
Day War a miracle we mentioned in chabas
aod R Yakov emden writes in his sitter
rakov em writes several hundred years
ago in his sitter he says the miracle of
the survival and continuity of the
Jewish people is no less miraculous than
the 10 plagues in the splitting of the
sea we just spent eight days if you're
watching from Israel lucky for you seven
days celebrating these Miracles ofas M
of The Exodus of leaving Egypt of 10
plagues of splitting of a sea the
revelation of Hashem intervening intered
interfering with nature suspending its
rules in order to manipulate the world
to display his power and his Providence
and we celebrate we Mark that and it's
miraculous and Cesar of Yakov emden you
think that's impressive you know it's
even more impressive surviving the
Crusades and the Inquisition and later a
holocaust a founding of a state of
Israel a Jewish Army defending itself
knocking 320 drones and missiles out of
an air says rakov obviously writing
before some of those things but writing
in his time already a victim of his own
uh persecution of his time that the
Jewish people's very survival what's
happened
since is more miraculous not less is
more worth marking and celebrating and
expressing gratitude for so do you know
an AR of yan in romma inim two
terrorists in a car had a car ramming
drove into three Yeshiva bakam I have
the video someone sent me of them flying
through the air thank God they were okay
they got out of the car you could see
this in the video they get out of the
car maybe I'll post it in our WhatsApp
group they get out of the car they take
a gun and there's a huge group shopping
before pesak a very religious
neighborhood inim takes out the gun aims
it and what could have been a massacre
of aravan the gun jammed and he tries
and he tries and he tries and the gun
jammed on him he throws it down he
starts to run away and of course they
caught these Terrace that's an
incredible Miracle you talk about a hash
Story the same gun that could have
created a massacre a tragedy of enormous
proportion we would have always
remembered for the massacre of Jews
shopping preparing for pesak and a gun
jammed and you know what happened we
hear we read we saw that headline oh wow
what a coincidence isn't that amazing or
isn't that great Hashem did that but we
move on got to get back to P pesak
preparation gotta go shop for the for
the matah the matah meal but we should
stop and pause and sing Hal and realize
Miracles we are living through Miracles
we said in Hal we sang in
Hal the nations of the world they sing
praise to hasem our praise isn't good
enough now we got to start invoking the
praise of the nations of the
world that the non-jews they praise God
you know what the answer is the
commentators say we have no idea how
many other times the gun jammed we don't
know so these terrorists these these
other enemies of ours who had their
nefarious plans that backfired they can
praise God and say oh the god of the
Jews he keeps stopping me we don't even
know we don't know what we don't know we
don't know how many times the gun jammed
how many times the missile launcher blew
up on themselves you know there was a
video out today of a of a fire and Rafa
that of course some were distorting and
saying we spoke about sh that gas is is
the sheer of Lies we're living in this
upside down backward world of lies lies
you know Iran claimed it hit Israel and
shared a video that turned out to be a
fire in
Chile so now they shared this fire in
Rafa and said look Israel is killing
innocent civilians but it was a rocket
launcher in Rafa that ended up blowing
up on itself the lies the sheer and
gul's EMS is truth is truth and that's
what we cling to and that's what we're
going to learn together today
momentarily but we have no many we have
no idea how many guns jammed we have no
idea how many rocket launchers backfired
we have have no idea how many plans of
our enemies were they plotted and ployed
and planned and it backfired and it blew
up literally or figuratively in their
face the non-jews of the world they can
acknowledge and praise Hashem they know
what they tried that didn't work we
don't even know we don't even know but
when you see what we averted in
ROM P when you read the details and you
hear from physicists the improbability
in the unlikelihood of the ability to
knock these missiles out of the sky is
as miraculous as shooting a bullet that
was shot from a gun you say wow Hashem
you're incredible so these are hash
moments these areh moments these are
amuna moments these are moments of
profound and deep gratitude to
appreciation to Hashem that we can't
just move on in life like Rak writes in
his sitter we're living the very
survival the existence the modern
miracle of Israel these are Miracles
Miracles Miracles Miracles and if we
just spent a week of Our Lives marking
and celebrating and commemorating
miracles and these Miracles asden are
even greater are even greater then we
should pause to say thank you thank you
Hashem we have a few things still we
left that we'd like you to do we want
you to finish them off we want you to
bring our hostages home we want you to
keep our soldiers safe want you to make
our campuses safe we want you to take
down all these Wicked people we got a
few things left on the checklist for you
if you're interested in our opinion
which he is he invites us to share it
three times a day and every moment in
between but but that doesn't mean even
though there's still more things on the
checklist that we don't pause and say
thank you for what you've done when it's
extraordinary and it's miraculous and
it's incredible I want to learn with you
something that I had in the source
sheets of shabas a shabas a Thea we
won't say how long it lasted but let's
just say it was several amum long
combined
yeah that's also a miracle I'm grateful
for it that people sat there that's a
miracle it's a modern Miracle they
didn't slip into a coma they didn't slip
into a coma they weren't unconscious
they didn't get up and protest nobody
threw rotten fruit at me it's a miracle
that anybody comes it's a miracle I'll
tell you something you're not going to
believe in the moments before I begin
when I'm looking over those sore sheets
I say to myself I don't I don't have
enough I'm going to finish so early it's
going to be embarrassing what am I going
to do at the time I'm doing for 20s
something years and I still think I'm
going to finish early it's going to be
humiliating I don't have enough material
here I promise you each and every time
each and every time I'm still I'm still
saying that so we spoke all about this
notion that we're living in this we're
living in a world of lies and
distortions and perversions and whether
it's whether it's members of Congress
accusing Jews of supporting genocide
which is nothing short of a modern blood
liel it's a modern blood liel and it is
dangerous and damaging and threatening
and they should be held accountable more
than censured but expelled from Congress
it's horrific horrific so whether it's
members of Congress whether it's what's
happening on college campuses whether
it's what's happening in in enemies
around Israel the lies the blatant
explicit lies and the bigger the LIE the
more it's accepted the more it's
repeated the more it's believed the
notion that the word genocide could be
associated with Jews perpetrating it the
most ethical and moral Army who are
carrying out the most ethical and moral
war in history the civilian to terrorist
ratio and the efforts the lengths to
which Israel drops leaflets sends text
messages makes phone calls tries to warn
civilians relocates them it's
extraordinary the gall and the
brazenness of these lies it's an it's an
and the that the internet that is such
BR how many people are watching right
now or the ability we have to learn
together because of the gift of
Technology but the curse of technology
is a mass and it is the most accelerated
form of spreading lies in all of history
of History so much of social media is
about curating a life that is a
misrepresentation of the truth of how
one lives offline they curate the
perfect life online just to make people
jealous or have fomo or compete or
compare or keep up an AI artificial
intelligence all this we shared in the
source sheets what artificial
intelligence is doing to literally
create create lies someone shared with
me after that drush a story of a
university that fired a professor
because the professor was caught on tape
saying horrifically racist and
homophobic and bias things only later it
was discovered it was produced through
AI he never said those things AI
technology can take one's voice one's
image you can't imagine what it could do
so again there's a lot of BR in it the
technology can accomplish a lot of good
but it's also scary what it could do and
that's G the G was a place of sh lies
we're not going to repeat the whole Shas
that's what we said P night at the Seder
we review the story of L and Yakov Yakov
isov Yakov is the the Paradigm of Truth
and Lan is this
um this snake the Sneaky Snake of lies
and uh deception and and yov empowered
within us this ability to navigate a
world of Lies by clinging to the truth
and what is the truth that we cling to
Hashem our belief in him our surrender
to him our submission to him our
acceptance of him and more than that
that Hashem gave us truth in the form of
the Ultimate GPS he gave us this
navigation tool called the Tor the Torah
is the blueprint of creation Torah is
the instruction manual for Life the
Torah tells us in this world of Lies how
can you navigate cling to the truth and
how can you bring Redemption G
Redemption when Moshe says the people
want to know God what is your name I
came to represent you and I told them
I'm going to redeem them and liberate
them in your name and they said what's
his name God what name of your should I
use and the ran said which mid which
character trait and hashem's used the
name which we saw which we saw the
beautiful
interpretation that name e times two
equals truth you want to know who's
going to redeem them truth truth will
set them free truth will redeem them
truth brings Redemption truth is G and
that's what so in the SS I had this
excerpt but like everything else in
theet we didn't really get a chance to
learn it together we make reference and
illusion and I provide it and I share it
so people can learn it on its own but I
want to learn it together this comes
from a sa
called which is the 13 principles of
Faith Shapiro was an incredible
incredible Tam a brilliant scholar
familiar not only with Tora nigla with
the all of sh and poim with all of the
revealed Torah but also the hidden Torah
in cabala and his capacity to
communicate it in a clear way in
inspiring way to give a vision for this
world he was an extraordinary
extraordinary person there's um a new
book that came out recently by called
the staring in the sun I think it's
called about ra MOS Shapiro it's a
worthwhile book I'll put it into the
WhatsApp group as well it's a it's a
worthwhile uh book to read that gives
his biography and quotes much of his
Torah and it's really fantastic so he
gave a series of classes to balich Chua
I think it was an or there were those
who were returning to an observant way
of life who were growing in their
Judaism and he gave a series of talks of
classes on the on the 13 principles of
our faith which we
said it's what the site's all about
pesak night is all about instilling in
ourselves and our family and our
children the 13 principles of faith you
find all 13 of those principles in The
Exodus in the story of leaving MIT you
find them all alluded to in the at the
Seder and the goal of the night you only
graduate the night you get a certificate
at the end of the seder at the end of
the night if you have identified you've
seen you believe you subscribe to you
affirm the 13 principles of our faith so
in this book in the introduction to this
book he has this chapter sheer Bas
called so again we're not
repeating but that was the notion of Ms
why is Ms we add the word Ms to the end
of the third paragraph ofma why Ms truth
truth clinging to the truth the the
Primacy of Truth the importance of Truth
so I want to learn this together with
you the notion the concept the idea of
am that's this class living with amuna
and we've now spent I don't know how
many couple hundred three what number
we're up to to find and exploring and
analyzing and most of all trying to live
and practice Amun we talked a lot about
the difference between am
andos we use them interchangeably but
they're not interchangeable and they're
not
synonyms
Faith trust in God clinging to God we've
explored over these hundreds of sh many
of the differences between so says the
word faith is misunderstood by most
people
in order to really understand and to
practice what it is let's spend a little
time defining what
is what is the word what is the word
amuna we use the word amuna in modern
Hebrew we use the word amuna in our
vernacular to describe someone who's
faithful someone who's trustworthy
someone you can lean upon someone you
can rely
on they're not flaky they're not going
to blow at the wind they're not
unreliable but we use the word
am is to describe someone something
that's trustworthy that's faithful
that's reliable that's
dependable then we can build on that kak
as the
says as the
says place the peg in a trustworthy and
a reliable in a in a place where it's
gonna hold where it'll stand where it'll
remain you try to put a nail into some
Jello or vanilla pudding is the nail
gonna hold no where do you have to
hammer the
nail if you Hammer the nail into
something sturdy and steady then the
nail is going to stay so the word the
the word amuna means sturdy and steady
and reliable and dependable and
something that will
hold when you say about a person that
they're who's a person who they're
believable they're Dependable they're
reliable their word is their bond
they're going to do what they say
they're going to show up when they say
they're going to show up they're going
to follow
through and practice and Carry Out what
they told you they're going to
do and even in the face of pressure even
if it's hard even if it's
difficult someone reliable and
dependable is going to come through you
know who's reliable and
dependable describes about we say this
in ouring every
day you found his heart was
hasem says you know why I love a because
he's not inspired today and not inspired
tomorrow he's on fire today and he's ice
cold tomorrow he's practicing today and
he drops it all tomorrow he's into it
today and tomorrow he moved on to the
next thing a
is he's he's in it he's in it by the way
he doesn't refer to this but what's our
wish and our hope for the young couple
at and the shabas kala and the wedding
under the and the ch
what do we say about them over and over
and over again what do we write in the
response card what do we write in the
card we give with the gift what do we
wish them they should build a
bias what's a
bias a bias bias is a house a
home now we understand what the word NE
means it should be a faithful and a
trustworthy and a dependable and a
reliable and a consistent and a sturdy
and a steady home be in the Jewish
people what do we mean by that I don't
know we could mean a lot of things by
that it could mean between the two of
them it should be a they should be
faithful to one another to be faithful
to one another doesn't just mean doesn't
just mean you didn't have an affair you
didn't cheat you know the ultimate Act
of infidelity to be faithful to one
another means that you can be vulnerable
and trustworthy that you are kind and
compassionate always speak respectfully
it means that when you say you're on
your way home from work you actually
left the desk and you've left your
office and you're on your way home from
work it means to be faithful it means to
be faithful to have equal access to the
finances it means for your word to be
your bond it means to be reliable and
dependable it's to be faithful so first
to be a build bias means n between the
young couple between the two they should
be n to their children should be a home
which is Dependable reliable predictable
consistent sturdy steady it means Manas
to the community oh that's a home you
could rely on I get questions I hate
these questions someone gets invited out
to a meal what do they do they text the
RAB can I eat there what's the question
is it a trustworthy home they'll ask my
child was invited to a play date do you
think I should let my child go the
question is it a trustworthy home what
are they asking is it a
bias that's essentially what they're
asking because today unfortunately in
tragic
you don't know what are they watching
what are they smoking what are they
drinking how are they speaking what are
they talking about is it a home that I
want my child having a play date at is
it a home we want to accept a shabas
meal to I hate those
texts is there a bias N I say text the
rabbitson that's what she deserves for
not being here today I tell her to text
the rabbitson that's what she gets
that's what she gets but what are they
essentially asking so now now say about
ourselves if someone were to text the
rabbi the rabbitson about you is that a
trustworthy home not only the kous of
the food but the kous of the environment
of the values of the
speech what would the rabbi or rabbitson
answer are you fulfilling the BR that
you got under your have you built a
bias is it n is it Dependable is it
reliable is it sturdy is it steady is it
consistent is it trustworthy is it
Faithful Is it namon is it a bias namon
bias namon could mean yet more when we
get the call for Hospitality someone has
a loved one down here in the hospital
they need a place to stay for shabas
someone's visiting a loved one who's not
observant and they're about cha they're
observant they need a place to stay for
chabas someone's checking out the
community they're thinking about moving
they want to come for shabas are you a
bias n can we call you and rely on you
are you like the wises can we call you
and say can we put someone up can you
make a meal we know we have a very
unfortunately Jess will tell you it is a
tragically short list of nean holes who
when you call and say can you put
someone up will you have them for a meal
we say absolutely no problem happy to is
this a biason is it reliable and
dependable for Hospitality to do so
biason could mean a lot of things but
the common denominator of all of those
things of means faithful Rel reliable
dependable consistent sturdy steady
predictable is Aon so all of this is by
way shapir is trying to help us which is
his his path he was an expert in maharal
and one of his his themes is the Hebrew
language and a sensitivity to the Hebrew
language to get to the root and to get
to the core and that opens up vistas of
what meaning is when you understand the
depth of the language and of of what it
means of what it means to really
appreciate so how do you understand what
amuna is you know Kish was here for
example he spoke about this Hebrew
language lashes is not like other
languages the language when you get to
the root you open everything up so a
desk or a chair is called the desk or a
chair not because there's intrinsic
meaning to the word desk or chair but so
that we're all on the same page talking
about the same thing we made up
arbitrary words to speak the same
language of a desk or a chaires the word
itself is a description not just an
arbitrary word so he gave as an example
the word a you know why a father's
parent is called an a because Al when
you become a parent it turned you from
an alfant into a base you went from one
into two extended who you are and there
are many many examples so here the word
amuna says MOS Shapiro the word amuna if
you want to understand the word amuna
you have to understand the word n what
is the word n reliable dependable sturdy
steady consistent we describe a person
that way we describe the wall is that a
wall can I hammer a nail to that wall is
this a good place to put up the painting
can I put a nail will it hold is it will
it hold will it hold is
described we just
read the describes if if it's as steady
and sturdy as a wall build upon it so I
am a wall my word is trustworthy my word
is trustworthy reliable
dependable who we spoke about on the eth
day of P were among the five offspring
of who who emulated his courage and
conviction was when everyone else stood
around and wondered and looked and
waited for someone else he started
walking he was
so says reducing the word down
to described as at the core of Amun what
is at the core of amuna like a rock a is
The
Rock The Rock why do we describe Hashem
as a rock what's a rock solid Dependable
solid is a
rock solid is a
rock but the am that we're talking about
when we think about hasem believing in
him trusting in Him having faith in him
we're talking about a second
level this is the I want to learn
together say so brilliantly first comes
truth then comes Faith MS theun
em is truth what's truth what's real
what's
true and then after you know it's true
now you could put your faith in it but
if it turns out to not be true what you
put your faith in is she so that's not
faith in order for it to be Faith
reliable dependable that you can lean on
it it has to be EMS it has to be
something true
once something reveals itself and
establishes itself as true now you can
have now you can have faith in
it so he's defined for us what's MS and
what's EMS is truth the evidence of
God's existence that's EMS that's not
amuna so if you sit and study you go to
a
seminar back in the day I was a mad on
the Discovery seminar is tor I told you
it used to be 2 and a half days long
because people used to have attention
span that lasted two and a half days now
it's less than 2 and a half hours
because people don't have an attention
span that could last for two and a half
hours so what was the discovery
seminar with brilliant speakers and a
brilliant curriculum you examined all
the evidence of God's existence and I
witnessed with my own eyes that summer
eight or 10 weeks in a row of sitting in
the discovery I was a m i recruited
people to go to it and help set up the
drinks and the food I put in my time
doing those things and uh and I I
witnessed with my own eyes people who
confronted and saw the revelation of the
truth and it blew their minds they
changed their lives some ran out of the
room crying they couldn't take it
believe it they didn't want to deal with
it because it just radically changed and
transformed everything they thought they
had known and believed and how they were
living that's confronting the MS that's
Ms Ms by the
way you know things like Bible Code a
little controversial but certainly for
those who subscribe to it how so much is
embedded in the codes and when you see
it and it's revealed can blow your mind
but more than that seven wonders of
creation and the history the laws of
history and nature and MTI burer going
through all these things and it blows
your mind when you see the MS that's all
Ms Ms the evidence of God's existence
there's not proof just like there's not
proof of anything in this world but
there's overwhelming evidence and the
same overwhelming evidence to do
anything that you do exist that there's
a God many of you are drinking coffee
this morning you're drinking it from the
Beautiful caffein with cavana cup and
hopefully you remember to caffeinate
with cavana this morning and how do you
know how do you know that that coffee is
not poisoned it was picked up from
Dunkin Donuts special for you post pesak
first morning first coffee after pesak
special Dunkin
Donuts what's their
slogan R Duncan okay 8 days we ran
without Duncan but we're back to running
on Duncan how do you know how do you
know that the worker how do you know the
person in the factory who made the
Dunkin' Donuts ground coffee didn't
poison it how do you know the worker at
Dunkin' Donuts didn't poison it how do
you know whoever picked it up and
delivered it here didn't poison it how
do you know how do you know why'd you
put it in your mouth why'd you drink it
some of you have a very fearful look on
your face right how do you know how do
you
know did you have proof
that it's not
poisoned now you don't have proof what
do you have an abundance of evidence
there regulations there's good people
there's oversight there's supervision
there's no motive for someone there's a
history of people bringing the coffee
and not being poisoned there is an
abundance of evidence enough that you
were willing to drink the coffee that
you buy the products at the supermarket
that you take the medicine you picked up
at the pharmacy that you cross the
street and you trust your eyes we make
decisions from the moment we wake up
till we fall asleep at night based on a
preponderance of evidence not an
absolute proof and the same level of
evidence that enables us to do
everything that we do during the day the
same amount of evidence exists to know
that there's a Hashem and I think in the
past we've explored some of these pieces
of evidence together in the Amun maybe
one day we'll come back to them again
we're not going to do it right now but
take my word there is the same evidence
that enables you and empowers you to
make other decisions in your life and
feel safe and secure in them there's a
similar amount of evidence a
preponderance of evidence that God that
God exists that God exists that's Ms
that evidence is evidence is Ms that's
why by the way we say in our ding does
judism expect us to take a leap of faith
Hashem doesn't say believe in me you
know what Hashem says know me know I
exist know today and put it in your
heart
you were shown to know that there is a
God you weren't shown to believe you
were shown to know that there is a God
because if you pause and analyze and
consider the evidence and you will see
the preponderance of evidence you will
know that there is a God the same way
that you know you could drink the coffee
same way that you know you could drive
your car and the brakes won't give out
on you in the middle of the highway same
way that you could know you could take
the medicine you picked up at the
pharmacy I just me they're making
everyone very anxious
or making you believe in God one of the
two but the same amount of evidence that
you can drive your car pick up the
medicine exist that there is a God and
God tells us that not you were shown to
believe to take a leap of faith you were
shown to
know no consider the evidence and no how
can you consider the evidence and no
because that's the MS the MS plain and
simple is the evidence is that there is
a God that's the EMS that's the MS that
is the truth you don't believe it 320
missiles were launched at Israel they
were all knocked out of the sky there's
a God that's the EMS there's a force
field over Israel there's an Iron Dome
literally and figuratively the EMS is
it's a miracle that Israel's enemies
helped Israel defend itself from Iran
Saudi Arabia Jordan and others the MS is
that is a miracle of epic epic
proportions that is an enormous piece of
evidence the EMS is that there is a God
that's the MS Ms is the evidence amuna
is now what do you do with it what do
you do with that how does that change
you how does that impact
you will you lean on that will you rely
on that do you depend on that does that
influence and impact your life that's
amuna
msun amuna is built on it's predicated
on Ms first there's truth you confront
the truth and the truth is revealed and
once you embrace and confront the truth
and it's revealed to you now amuna is
what does it mean for you what does it
do for you how does it change you the MS
is smoking will kill you you could read
all the evidence that's Ms the amuna is
okay now what do you give it
up do you stop smoking Ms are the facts
the truth but how the truth transforms
and changes and impacts your life that's
the
that's his
principle don't say I believe hasem
exists he doesn't need you to believe he
exists he
exists I believe God exists I don't need
you to believe he exists he exists
whether you believe it or not his
existence doesn't depend to rely on your
belief he's not waiting for you to take
that leap he doesn't ask of you to
believe in him so
says I believe that exists it's a
foolish
statement doesn't take doesn't
take I believe in him I rely on him I
trust
him you don't want your child to say I
believe you're my
father we have to do some DNA testing
believe I'm your father that's a fact I
don't need you to believe it that's a
fact I want my child to say I believe
you love me I believe I can rely on you
I believe you're looking out for my best
interest I believe you care about me I
believe you protect me Hashem doesn't
want us to say I believe he exists he
exists whether we believe it or not and
he doesn't need our belief in order to
feel confident in his existence it's a
truth that's an EMS God's existence is
EMS and Muna is the faith we put in him
that no one will ever nothing can ever
make me move from my faith my belief my
clinging to that truth he's reliable
he's Dependable he knows he cares he's
involved he's invested in my
life so what is the mitah the Mitzvah of
Amun that's so misunderstood he
says the Mitzvah of Amun that's so
misunderstood is not to have faith in
God's existence that doesn't need you
that's not a Mitzvah that's a fact
that's a truth that's an MS what's
amuna amuna is now what the fact is God
exists good now what do you believe he's
reliable and dependable sturdy and
steady consistent do you lean on him do
you depend on him do you trust him do
you surrender to him do you submit to
him do you feel his presence in your
life are you invested in a relationship
with him that's Amun
so when someone says how's your amuna
they're not asking how's your confidence
that there's a God when someone says I'm
working on my amuna they're not working
on I'm reading more books with more
evidence whether there's a God all that
is a question of the MS you're holding
by the MS are you living in sheare you
holding by the truth or not that's Ms
amuna is the now what do you do with it
what do you do with it
the word Amun we find a synonym forun
connected and correlated with Amun is
the notion of a bris of a covenant of a
contract of a
commitment the word Amun is the feminine
women are more trustworthy than men
that's why the word faithfulness and
trustworthiness is in the feminine form
not the masculine form
it's and the says
why a woman's faithfulness and
trustworthiness to a man is more
reliable dependable predictable than a
man towards a woman on behalf of men I'm
offended but Judaism is a biased
religion towards women and we're already
used to
that that happens to be true
and you see this expressed from the
biblical perspective of polygamy we're
not going to get into this right now but
the capacity to be faithful and have
Fidelity women innately have a greater
sense than men that's why the word amuna
is in the feminine form not the
masculine form but again you see that
the word amuna has to do with contract a
commitment a covenant What is marriage
what is Fidelity what is faithfulness
it's a contract it's a commitment you
made a commitment you made a commitment
and maybe we don't use these words under
the but they were taken from us
essentially they're in the Cuba in
sickness and in health till death do us
part this is a commitment this is the
commitment that we make towards one
another am is a bris it's a covenant
it's a contract it's a commitment it's
reliability it's dependability
all this was his
introduction predicated on Ms so God's
existence doesn't need your amuna that's
the MS but now that he exists what do we
do with it are we in that commitment are
we in that contract are we in that
Covenant did we stand under the with him
are we reliable and dependable and
trustworthy is he towards us are we
towards him that's what amuna is really
all about andem will pick up with it
next time have a good day may we hereos
please remain to complete all of Saum
for our brothers and sisters in Israel